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COMBINED SOCKET AND BRACKET FOE CURTAIN RODS.

No. 484,028. Patented Oct. 11, 1892.

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CHARLES W. LAWRENCE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED SOCKET AND BRACKET FOR CURTAIN-RODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,028, dated October11, 1892.

Application filed J'une 22.1892. Serla1No.437,584. camel.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. LAWRENCE, a resident of the city, county,and State of New York, have invented an Improved Oom bined Socket andBracket for Curtain-Rods, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in combined socketsand brackets for curtain-rods; and it consists in the combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter described, and specifically pointed outin the claim.

The object of this invention is to produce a curtain-rod holder whichshall serve as a bracket on the face of the window-frame or as a socketon the inner side of the frame, as may be desired, so as to render itunnecessary for the consumer to obtain special sockets for the insideof" the frame and special brackets for the outside of the frame, as washeretofore necessary.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several figures of the drawings,in which- Figure l is a front view showing my device applied as abracket on the outside of the frame. Fig. 2 is a transverse section online 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front view showing my device applied asa socket on the inner portion of the framework. Fig. 4 is a transversesection on the line 44 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the blankfrom which my improved socket and bracket is made.

My combined socket and bracket is preferably struck up from a singlepiece of sheet metal and has the base-flange ct perforated, as shown atb b, of which perforations there maybe two or more for the reception offastening-screws for fastening the device to the inside or outside ofthe framework. Its body portion 0 is bent at right angles to thebasefiange a and is provided with an upper lip or flange d, which isbent at right angles to the body portion and which may project eitherover the base-flange or away from the same. Through the blank, as itlies flat, Fig. 5, are punched two apertures. The one nearest the basehas a narrow middle portion'e, a wider outer portion f, and a widerinner portion g. The blank when folded into form is bent on the line atwhich the portion f joins the narrow slot e. Hence in the'completestructure the narrowslot e and its inner enlargement g willbe in thebody portion 0, (see Fig. 3,) while the enlargement f will be in the lip(Z. (See Fig. 4.) The other aperture of the blank has a narrow neck It,open at the outer edge of the lip (55, and an inner enlargement 'i,which is similar to the enlargement g.

The curtain-rod A has a headed at each end. I

-When the article is to be used as a bracketthat is, on the outer faceof the frame B-the head of the gudgeon j is inserted through theenlarged slot f, so that the neck of the gudgeon can pass through thenarrow slot 6 into the enlargement g, resting, finally, in the lower endof the latter, all as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. When, however, thearticle is to be used as a socket -that is, on the inner side of theframe B-the neck of the gudgeon enters in the narrow slot 72. andfinally rests in the enlargement as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. Thefinal receiving-slots i and g, extending equally far above and below theentering slots h 6, respectively, render the device reversible, so thatno rights and lefts are required.

The invention is applicable to various kinds of curtain-rods, whetherthey are of given lengths or extensible, large diameter or of smalldiameter, provided such curtain-rods have headed end pins or gudgeonsfor engagement with the improved combined socket and bracket.

Having described my invention, What I claim is- The combined socket andbracket consisting of the body 0 and lip d, the body having narrow slot6 and enlarged slot g, and the lip cl, having enlarged slot f,communicating with the narrow slot e, and having, also, the narrow sloth and its enlargement t', substantially as and for the purpose hereinshown and de scribed.

CHAS. W. LAl/VRENOE.

gudgeon j Witnesses:

E. 0. BROWN, DAVID M. AMDT.

